Robert Gramling
Professor, Family Medicine
Vice Chair, Research
PRONOUNS he/him
- D.Sc., Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health
- M.D., Dartmouth Medical School
- B.A. Colby College
Areas of expertise
conversation epidemiology, person-focused communication, listening.
BIO
Bob Gramling, M.D., D.Sc. is a palliative care physician and epidemiologist. He is a Tenured Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Family Medicine. Bob is the Head of the Vermont Conversation Lab inter-disciplinary team of creative, inspiring and productive student and faculty communication scientists. He has authored more than 100 original research publications and received funding from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the National Palliative Care Research Center, the Greenwall Bioethics Foundation and the American Cancer Society.
Courses
- Conversation Epidemiology (undergraduate)
Publications
Awards and Achievements
- Inaugural Holly & Bob Miller Endowed Chair of Palliative Medicine (2016-2024)
- Apprentice Therapist, Bill Richards Center for Healing
- Sunstone Therapies (2023 - 2024)
- Fulbright Specialist, U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (2014)
Bio
Bob Gramling, M.D., D.Sc. is a palliative care physician and epidemiologist. He is a Tenured Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Family Medicine. Bob is the Head of the Vermont Conversation Lab inter-disciplinary team of creative, inspiring and productive student and faculty communication scientists. He has authored more than 100 original research publications and received funding from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the National Palliative Care Research Center, the Greenwall Bioethics Foundation and the American Cancer Society.
Courses
- Conversation Epidemiology (undergraduate)
Publications
Awards and Achievements
- Inaugural Holly & Bob Miller Endowed Chair of Palliative Medicine (2016-2024)
- Apprentice Therapist, Bill Richards Center for Healing
- Sunstone Therapies (2023 - 2024)
- Fulbright Specialist, U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (2014)
Select Publications
- Gramling CJ, Durieux BN, Clarfeld LA, Javed A, Matt JE, Manukyan V, Braddish T, Wong A, Wills J, Hirsch L, Straton J, Cheney N, Eppstein MJ, Rizzo DM, Gramling R. Epidemiology of Connectional Silence in specialist serious illness conversations. Patient Educ Couns. 2022 Jul;105(7):2005-2011. PubMed PMID: 34799186.
- Matt JE, Rizzo DM, Javed A, Eppstein MJ, Manukyan V, Gramling C, Dewoolkar AM, Gramling R. An Acoustical and Lexical Machine-Learning Pipeline to Identify Connectional Silences. J Palliat Med. 2023 Dec;26(12):1627-1633. PMID: 37440175.
- Gramling R, Bennett E, Curtis K, Richards W, Rizzo DM, Arnoldy F, Hegg L, Porter J, Honstein H, Pratt S, Tarbi E, Reblin M, Thambi P, Agrawal M. Developing a Direct Observation Measure of Therapeutic Connection in Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy: A Feasibility Study. J Palliat Med. 2023 Dec;26(12):1702-1708. PubMed PMID: 37590474.
- Ross L, Danforth CM, Eppstein MJ, Clarfeld LA, Durieux BN, Gramling CJ, Hirsch L, Rizzo DM, Gramling R. Story Arcs in Serious Illness: Natural Language Processing features of Palliative Care Conversations. Patient Educ Couns. 2020 Apr;103(4):826-832. PubMed PMID: 31831305.
- Gramling R, Stanek S, Ladwig S, Gajary-Coots E, Cimino J, Anderson W, Norton SA, Aslakson RA, Ast K, Elk R, Garner KK, Gramling R, Grudzen C, Kamal AH, Lamba S, LeBlanc TW, Rhodes RL, Roeland E, Schulman-Green D, Unroe KT. Feeling Heard and Understood: A Patient-Reported Quality Measure for the Inpatient Palliative Care Setting. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2016 Feb;51(2):150-4. PubMed PMID: 26596879.
Additional Publications
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/robert.gramling.1/bibliography/public/